Here at NLT, productivity for one person alone isn’t going to cut it. We need to have a collaborative productivity so that everyone is updated on the fly and instantly. With this objective in mind, we sought out for the most suitable solutions for our own personal needs and for the collaborative needs.
If you just got yourself a great smartphone and thinking of utilizing it for working purposes but not too sure which app to use, then these tips are here to show you assistance in your daily life work and productivity.
1. Pushbullet (Top Favourite)
My top personal favourite my life literally changed because of Pushbullet. It’s basically an app that enables ease of pushing your contents from your PC/Mac to your phone/iphone.
Pushbullet provides a great feature on enabling the users to push files, notes, links, map location, list all just by knowing the other user’s email. And now that’s just the tip of the iceberg, one of its main highlights is the ability of view your notification through your laptop!
Certain apps even allow the users the ability to reply through your laptop except WhatsApp – which is a bummer, though I understand that Whatsapp uses their own ways of communication due to security measures. Currently, replying SMS is definitely possible. And with the latest update from Pushbullet, there’s now the Universal Copy and Paste. We are now connected from the PC to the Android and vice versa through the Pushbullet network. Meaning everything that we copy and paste is copied to the PC or Android as well.
For now, PushBullet is definitely a great tool if you’re looking for a solution on maximizing your Android smartphone.
2. Chrome syncing
As basic as this maybe, this is kind of the best feature when you are working on certain devices simultaneously. If you’re viewing your websites from a Chrome browser in your PC and then you suddenly device on going out, your Chrome will sync everything that has the same Google account logged in. This includes all of the tabs, bookmarks, history, even saved passwords and autofill data. As I mention it may be a basic feature but very useful when browsing while on-the-go.
This is a great feature for those who have been using Chrome on their devices and computers. Also, don’t worry about security much. There is a two-step authentication for the syncing.
There really isn’t a link for you to get Chrome syncing, all you have to do is download Chrome browser on your computer and your Android or iOS device, then have them both to login to your Google account and you’re good to go!
3. Timetable
A must have for all students especially university students. Probably the only app I have used that works perfectly for muting before the classes starts and unmute after the classes ends. I get to also choose the timeslots and when is my holidays and when my new semester begins. A fantastic tool that all universities should consider integrating into their system.
4. Pockets
To those that are their true fans would probably know them from their old name “Read It Later”. That was their Firefox plugin when Firefox was the bomb – way before Google Chrome even existed. Now changing their style and design along with their name, Pockets is a fantastic offline reader and also a temporary bookmark to indicate that you want to read the website later – hence the previous name “Read It Later”. One of the few finest creation on the web app and enabling users to experience ease of reading through their website by having an Android app and web plugin to save the links to read on your smart phones later.
Personally, this is a true alternative for the Chrome syncing because of the way I use my device. What I always do is open an article, save it as a tab and read it on other devices later. Imagine now I have an offline copy of the article on the go. I don’t even have to find for a stable connection!
5. gReader
gReader, an RSS feed app for Android usage. Initially designed for Google Reader when it was still alive, gReader enables the users to use RSS through different means like Feedly. This app is probably the best in RSS feeding, the looks and feel for this app is really smooth and it allows offline caching for those without data to read their news offline. Also gReader provides many sort of services to social networks like Facebook, Twitter or bookmarking to Pockets and Instapaper. An app for those that wants to keep up-to-date to latest news or trends. The best part is that it’s like a complimentary app to all the other powerful ones.
Get gReader here!
6. Google Drive suite
Another fabulous tool to have in your pocket on-the-go, Google Drive is similar to Dropbox but can sync docs with ease. Let’s say that you constantly work on-the-go and you need to amend your PowerPoint slides in the car – bear in mind that even in the middle of a jam, I don’t recommend you to do so – then Google Docs would be of assistance.
They provide the platform to open all of your documents – ranging from Word, PowerPoint, and Excel – through your phone and you are able to mobilize your phone just like using your laptop. When working in a team, Google Docs also provides a perfect tool to have live document writing – to have real time monitoring of who is contributing what. Google Drive also doesn’t ends there, as they also bring your experience onto the PC whereby you’re able to continue where you left off from your phone inside your PC through a web browser of by downloading the Google Drive app you can continue from the Desktop app.
7. OCR scanning ability using Google Drive
I strongly believe this should own a subsection on its own. It’s probably the coolest thing Google can share with us.
If you’re not familiar with the term OCR, it stands for Optical Character Recognition, and is applied to the app called Camscanner – where you take a picture of text, and it is converted to a PDF file for you.
Google OCR, is pretty accurate for an OCR and this is because it is based off the recaptcha system that you type when downloading something. I’m always using this whenever I am given an image that I want to parse the content of the image out for data entree, and this is saves me lots of time when working on big projects that requires lots of time to do data entree. I wouldn’t say this would always accurate but it is pretty decent in doing it’s work and all I have to do is double-check it’s spelling and I’m done with my work in a shorter time period. Well done Google.
For some tutorials on how to do it Click Here.
8. ES File Explorer and LAN syncs and cloud
ES File Explorer enables the users to not only browser through your local files but to also browse through your network computer and browse through your clouds services (Dropbox, Box, SugarSync, OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Yandex, Bitcasa, Mediafire) This app definitely is fitted with lots of features even for power users like the root file explorer, app backup or even the Recycle bin and built-in Music Player. Those were some cool features from ES File Explorer, being able to connect to your cloud enables the users to sync their local files and remote files just like the regular copy and paste in any other file browsers. This app however, is only provided for the Android users and is not for the iPhone users. This is probably one app I cannot live without it.
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